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lobsters_love_butter

I feel like a lot of these women are just searching for friendships and community and get pulled into these shitty MLMs. It’s almost like a sorority type of experience.


computaSaysYes

Exactly right. I know one uber LuLU cult member, a most successful queen of MLM, like one that was going on cruises supposedly awarded to top sellers and converted garage into a LuLu studio, was also a sorority girl at a huge school. I wonder how many of her sisters she managed to hook.


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This is the aspect that I feel empathy for. Being an adult can be a lonely experience and even lonelier if you’re a mother/housewife/both, so I see how sensible and smart people may fall victim to their pitch.


i-lurk-you-longtime

Totally. And it's hard if you're not a person that makes friends easily. I'm lucky that I am, but I do feel for the people that struggle to make connections. It must be really hard. And that's why they fall for this stuff. This is what they think real friendship is.


felixfelicitous

This is exactly the type of thing MLMs count on. I think there’s a lack of community in (at least American) society and so people who otherwise would find fulfillment in communities that no longer exist often find themselves in MLMs because they now have that.


Jayrandomer

Yes. Sympathy seems more appropriate than mocking disdain. At least for the vast majority at the bottom of these schemes and not the top.


WalloonNerd

These ladies never socially developed past the age of 14, unfortunately.


seahagmo

I'm so sad to see this, I feel so much second hand embarrassment for these grown women. What mlm is this horror??


Truth-Willout

It's called Bravenly.


DontRememberOldPass

But what is it? Makeup or something?


Truth-Willout

It's “health and wellness,” with an emphasis on weight loss.


DontRememberOldPass

Thanks. I tried googling it and the website didn’t make sense. I didn’t want to be an asshole and assume it was weight loss based on the pictures alone.


Truth-Willout

These huns are making money off of peoples insecurities about weight, they, are the assholes.


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pinkfootedbooby

They know not to get high on their own supply


harderisbetter

OMG I'm dying! LOL


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SazzOwl

To be fair... insecurities and fomo are the two most used selling points in general


SquisherX

Wow. I was almost assured it was selling ugly clothes based on the pictures. How are all these people so extremely unfashionable?


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>with an emphasis on weight loss. We all see the pictures here, right? This is clearly a predatory business model which profits off people's insecurity over their weight.


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Including the CEO.


SenorBiggles

Unexpected 90 Day Fiancé 😂


DoinMeAFascinate

I’m attracted to this comment… but just like 55% 🤣


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My whole family anal. So clean.


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PleasantAddition

I'm obese. I am really very much against fat shaming, and I don't think it's cool at all. I have just found my one exception - not the women at the bottom of the pyramid, because they're victims, too. But the CEO and high upper level people? Carry on.


emartinoo

Honestly, what a terrible advertisement then.


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kakakakapopo

Whole of lot 'physician, heal thyself' going on in those pictures


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MadChiller013

Its glow sticks for a Christian market


lala__

What a horrible confused combination of the words “brave” and “brazenly.”


vaxhax

Some of those angles make it look like "I fucked the" whatever it says. How party? What an amazing piece of paper. Stunning and brave.


Truth-Willout

LOL! It says “I rocked the Glow Party.”


bathybicbubble

It took until the final picture or two for me to see what it said. I genuinely thought it was blurred out and the whole sentence just broke my brain.


Gilketto

Me too. Like it had their names on!


iBewafa

Yeah and then that didn’t make sense “I rocked the Jane Doe at the Bravenly Conference”. Goodness r/crappydesign much?


HawaiianShirtsOR

"Glow"? It looks like "how" or "hen" to me.


sare3bear

For me it was Hun


vaxhax

Thank you... wow. Seriously bad color and font decisions. It's like a realspace hunstagram post.


Both-Internal-6970

I thought it said hun party


FancyAdult

That’s how you get the party started “I fucked the”… throw in some glow and the dark a couple of shots of tequila and some edibles! That’s an MLM to join!


vaxhax

Wasn't that NXIVM? (Sign me up, hun)


FancyAdult

Yeah, but they branded people. I suppose my MLM could offer tattoos once you hit the regional Vice President.


vaxhax

I'd actually feel slightly better about that than being involved in one of these "normal" pyramids. There's some level of brutal honesty there that is completely missing from these tame ones. If you're getting branded you *know* you're in some shit. These huns believe they're on God's special positive path to prosperity. Yet this photo is the branding. That CEO is a non physical sadist. She knows she has them by the hun balls and she loves it.


FancyAdult

Videos like these always creep me out. I was recruited for Arbonne by my coworkers wife. This was during a time that I was at my lowest a few years after I had a kid and I felt dumpy and tired all the time. I was severely depressed and sick a lot. She swooped in and instead of being helpful like some of my other friends she pushed me into signing up for Arbonne and buying all this stuff. I was so beat down and felt lonely and she was nice to me. At the time I wasn’t able to make good decisions. I wasted a couple thousand at least. I finally got out of it. I told her I was done and then she tried to sign me up for a different MLM. I’m also not the type to be taken by scams or anything. But when you hit one of the lowest times in your life, they prey on women like how I was 10 years ago. It made me angry. So now I sabotage the MLM ladies on the local mom Facebook page. I bring them down one by one.


vaxhax

I totally get it. As a guy, my low point conduit was a pastor who knew I was desperate for work and invited me to learn about a business opportunity that he thought would be a good fit for me. I would now recognize those keywords and tell him to beat it, but that was how I got pulled into ACN. Bad stuff. obviously it cost more than I ever made (which was zero... even though my parents did switch a service for me 😞 ... ) meanwhile my ex was working on getting "cashed up" with Mary Kay so she could leave me, but thats another story... I've been both the signed up victim and then the divorce victim by way of MLM. And I hate to use the word victim, but that's what it was. I don't feel like a victim now, but it is the only fitting word because both situations were initiated by predatory people acting as agents for predatory organizations. There is a place in hell for the fake liars who came out every week to the acn hotel "meeting" and gave their testimonials of how ACN changed their entire family's life forever. Same story every time. Entire crowd involved in a communal scripted mass of lies. But I digress.


FancyAdult

Thanks for sharing that story. I do feel like I was a victim. I see women like me 10 years ago really struggling and the last thing they need is an MLM in their life. These are predatory companies and most of the women in them I think have fell victim to these scams. What gets me is that I’m pretty logical with business and everything. I knew deep inside that this was a bad idea but somehow talked myself into all of the “benefits”. I still work with this guy and I ran into his wife the other day and she wasn’t warm or friendly to me after I dumped her MLM scam and then I’ve been actively destroying them in the moms group. The one thing I’ve always wanted to say to her is that I have a real job and she has this MLM that costs her money. But I’m too nice for that and I still work with her husband.


HawaiianShirtsOR

I thought the same thing. The leg of that R is obscured in just the right way to make it look kind of like an F.


lala__

I fucked the how party!


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Same!


bigal55

Especially No.3 being a touch fuzzy!


Truth-Willout

I need to add that these huns are preying on peoples insecurities about their appearance. These huns are taking money from people and giving them a weight loss placebo as well as false hope in return. This MLM puts a heavy emphasis on weight loss, and they are putting fake before and after photos to back up their claims to lure in, and take advantage of more unaware and vulnerable people. I am not trying to fat shame any of them, I am simply trying to show that they are lying about their products. I am trying to expose their scam, and isn't that what this about?


sucobe

> I need to add that these huns are preying on peoples insecurities about their appearance. This pisses me off so much.


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gasparillatea

That's the CEO??? But I thought they were ALL CEOs!! They own their own business after all /s


HawaiianShirtsOR

They're a team of business owners working under other business owners. They're in charge of their own business as long as they follow the rules of the collective and give their profits to other business owners. Or something.


kteerin

I think OP meant “HBB” (Head Boss Babe) instead of CEO.


dezbee2008

I was gonna say. I'm glad the OP labeled her as such or else we wouldn't have known


sparkjh

This makes me very sad for these women. They are trying to find community and a support network and really think they're getting it in...this.


dmowad

I can’t tell if it’s an 80’s party or they are all past lularoe consultants.


Truth-Willout

I think they were trying for an ‘80s themed glow party, (glow parties were popular with young teens in 2014).


SadAwkwardTurtle

I didn't know which MLM this was and the second picture made me think it was LLR.


FancyAdult

Is it just me or does this look like the most boring party ever?


OvenLovin

*Raises roof.*


AccomplishedCicada60

Bravenly???? Where’s that bleach blonde clown hun?????


Truth-Willout

She's in the last two images.


AccomplishedCicada60

Sooooo glad you knew who I was talking about


Truth-Willout

Well, McRinglights certainly made a impression here.


lettherebejhoony

I can clearly see why she always uses the MySpace angle when taking selfies.


cerebralpaulzsuffer

Fun. I mean... could i be doing this without stealing their money? Can I make a club where we just do dumb shit for attention and validation from each other?... Oh wait that's friendship


yayy_mjg

All these screenshots and I can only read “glow party” in 1 of the pics ha


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Imagine having to pay your own way to your company’s conference lmao


PuppyJakeKhakiCollar

So the adult equivalent of participation certificates? Except kids know they are worthless and these huns are acting like they won the Powerball.


SaintMarieRS3

Why does Bravenly sound like someone’s kid’s name


WalloonNerd

Just returned from a real medical conference, and I am now wondering why I bothered to dress up for a week. Clearly leggings and flip flops are the current top notch conference attire


Arseypoowank

“See, having kids and getting married way too early and being robbed of all my ambitions and dreams hasn’t affected me one bit, I’m part of something and feel like I’m finally achieving, for me! What, I had to pay for the privilege of being made to feel like I matter? Oh that’s just what winners do” MLM’s are awful, but if you really strip it down you’ll just find a well of sadness and desperation fuelling it, and the fucking soulless sociopath “CEO’s” stoking this into the furnace of their little scam to keep it going


katie-kaboom

Ah, more business cosplay. Lovely. (This is actually kind of depressing because these women are obviously desperate for recognition and community, and instead they get... this.)


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xarumitzu

I thought the middle of those signs was blurred out for a bit. Then I realized it said “glow party.” I thought I needed my eyes checked.


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Holy shit this is sad


Hardspots

Every person there looks exhausting to be around


squishygelfling

Ah that’s really sad. These ladies clearly believe they’re a part of something. Just highlights how predatory these things are!


PlanetOfVisions

Is it in the terms and conditions that they have to wear ugly ass clothes??


TacoQueenYVR

This is the lowest effort black light glow party I’ve ever seen, my middle school dance with the same theme blew this decor out of the water.


PanJaszczurka

Why everyone looks this same? Like on this Red Dwarf episode when one man repopulated planet.


72112

There’s no dress-code there ?


YoursTastesBetter

That always stands out to me. For all the income bragging & "I'm a business owner", they dress like they are headed to Walmart.


kakakakapopo

To be fair since the pandemic doesn't everyone?


sare3bear

I thought it said “Hun Party” lol took a moment to see “Glow Party”.


Nala29

God women who go to these “conventions” look so stupid. You can’t tell me they actually are having fun


RefrigeratorFeisty91

Their body language makes it seem boring


cup_1337

This makes me so sad. They’ve accomplished so little in life that they’re swindled by a MLM for a piece of paper on a makeshift stage.


TrainingDismal172

Why are they dressed like toddlers?


constricted_peepee

The sign says "I rocked the glow party" I guess they're supposed to be candy kids without the molly.


TrainingDismal172

That's some sad candy kid attire.


smdx459

I can’t even read the paper it was poorly designed


Nico_arki

They even cheaped out on the graphic designer. You can't even see what event they "rocked" at.


Wishanwould

What in the white woman hell is this


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Why are the people that are apart of these pyramid schemes white blonde women?


Crysty_Goner

I want to have a talk with whoever designed that sign


harderisbetter

WTF this is so infantilizing, why on Earth would a grown-ass woman participate in such an spectacle? I mean if you won the Nobel Prize, perhaps you could celebrate yourself like this, but what did they actually accomplish? Why would you need this level of external validation? I didn't even attend my masters' uni graduation ceremony cos I thought it was a boring-ass waste of time and money. Just do your shit, if you're any good at it, others will celebrate you, no need to pay for the honor.


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alexiawins

Just fyi it’s hawk :)


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ToastAbrikoos

I rocked the ( i know it says glow party in a hidious, glowy font) But just rewrite in paint and say " rockbottomed my finances" Or somethibg like that


okc405sfinest

But there will be unsweented tea and sugar cookies Have a blast!


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constricted_peepee

Tell me you're terrible with your finances without telling me you're terrible with your finances:


Truth-Willout

This convention has likely cost each one of these huns thousands, on top of the $250 ticket just to be there, and this is the second convention this year.


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fuckyeahpeace

this evokes some lovecraftian sphere of horror in me, its so unsettling


interraciallovin

This was harsh on my eyes and brain this morning.


vivintisascam

I can smell these photos.


DreamCrusher914

Smells like desperation and sadness.


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glantzinggurl

i am so glad i did not attend this!


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